“In this 1969 classic, organs, keyboards and percussion flutter and dance in a delightful consonance with a magical pre-ambient innocence then fall asleep – meditatively – like birds after a long flight”
The magic of this recording is its flow and the magical innocence and simplicity of its thematic story. The title track, A Rainbow In Curved Air, starts off with a swirl of organs, keyboards, harpsichords and percussion that dance in a joyful consonance with frequencies that equally delight the mind and the ear. These rhythms, melodies and phases swiftly swerve, swirl and pan in between each other while gradually building pace and lovely spatial movement through periods of slight decay. These sounds are equally at home sounding like computer data or the layered harmony of different bird singing in a rainforest.
If the title track was 18 minutes of pure flight, of sonic migration then the second and final track Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band is the pure rest after the journey. Immediately the music take the form of a much more airy and less dynamic soundscape. A soundscape in which movements form through subtraction instead of addition. However the tone remain just shifted. As it progresses it further decompresses into deeper drone territory before bombarding into cacophony of goose like rhythmic squeaks that become mysteriously hypnotic and soothing.
Oscillate 